So the hybrid club golf swing can be learned and played at first with one club, a 33 degree hybrid.  I use the System Q from Hireko Golf, a golf components company in California.  This is one of many hybrids that can eventually take the place of all irons in someone's set and game if they choose.  At first it is simply easier to learn a single-plane swing using the most vital mechanics of swinging a golf club and use the Golfer's Footprint for a guide on the ground.  I will detail the grip of this swing although in the pictures here notice I am not using body spin or back torque plus no high back swing is necessary to produce solid shots.  That grip I have mentioned does keep the club face square through impact longer than a traditional grip where the club face will roll over through impact and produce a shot that travels right to left.  I would rather know the ball is headed toward the target verses trying to play that right to left curve/draw.  You will notice how I stay back behind the ball at impact which is a vital component of any swing.  Even baseball & hockey players stay back at impact when they swing.  I will be seeking a golf course for the Sundowner's League I mentioned earlier so I will keep everyone posted if I locate one.  Perhaps other courses would contact the first course and check on the traffic and late day ( pre-sundown) revenue.  Meanwhile, a game at home using the Golfer's Footprint to protect the lawn and practice balls can be used to take turns and hit toward any simple target - like a rope in the shape of a circle on the ground.  Take 10 shots and score per round.  Maybe play nine rounds and see who scores the most points.  One point per ball in the circle.  Have fun.

After several months of experimenting I have now discovered a new venue similar to croquet for those who do not want want the game of golf offers. This game, considered the Sundowner's League will play for the $5.00 price of adult mini-putt at a course with up to perhaps 6 on one hole. Just a group of friends getting out in the last hour plus of the day and using one club, suggesting a 33 degree hybrid, which allows the ball to go airborne well and travel a distance of 160 yards if struck really well. One super feature is the use of a Golfer's Footprint guide board. This can be used at home for continued practice either using practice balls or one new gadget called the Strike-N-Reel, which is a tethered practice ball. One never has to pick up practice balls using this unique item. One ball! That's all! just like real golf or just like Sundowner's golf where you get only one shot still but Par, Bogey, etc. are not part of the game. It is simply the number you get when your ball lands in the cup on the hole. The purpose of the hybrid club swing is to make things easier plus self-instructional when using the mechanics I will show in the next blog. Basically one uses a high lofted hybrid with an oversize grip, a single-plane grip that maintains the club in one plane when swinging it ( founded by Moe Norman of Canada when establishing the legacy of the most perfect ball striker in golf ever), the use of the Golfer's Footprint, and ten minutes a day to maintain a swing path. What is really unique about just using the Footprint on the ground is the fact that once you can strike this flexible board across the red arrow on it and hear it dong-sound as the club passes over it, then you are ready to strike a ball. It is a pre-routine that trains one to stay back behind the ball and make solid contact. I actually practice hitting on it with no ball by setting it on the ground and swinging across the yellow middle section that is found along the red arrow at the impact area. I like hearing the dong as the board jumps in the grass which tells me that I am really staying down regarding my spine angle when striking across the impact zone. You can see this with the picture provided.

The Strike-N-Reel provides an easy way to train while reeling one ball back to myself and not needing to pick up practice balls. This unit is ideal for those 'on the road' as a way to maintain a swing while at the hotel. Sometimes there just isn't time to go off to a range for practice when business takes most of the day's time.

Single Plane Swing Verification

After years of experimenting with hybrids due to an auto accident where I sustained three upper neck spinal issues, I can honest attest to the Fact that having learned the Natural Golf Swing in 2002 definitely gave me the base fundamentals to continue golf with variations. Those variations have been with oversize grips on hybrids that took the place of my irons, except for the wedge use in the short game near the green.
Now, after careful study of the Natural Golf Swing again on websites with Moe Norman demonstrating and discussing his swing style, I discovered actually how he was gripping the club. I have also kept in touch with a Palm Springs, California Site featuring the Moe Noman Natural Golf Swing which is the Single Plane Swing Moe brought to golf.
Considering my fundamentals are taken from the Natural Golf Swing, I decided to try hitting standard irons again. This time I would employ the grip that I have seen from a Golf Academy based in Oklahoma and a video I watched on the internet of Moe explaining his swing while he hit golf shots. Because my impact zone was the same as Moe's explanation - Not Turning the Clubface Over through Impact - I adapted to the irons within 12 golf shots, a perfect dozen for me! I just never knew this actual grip from my former days with Natural Golf. At the time in 2002 larger than normal grips were featured and a ten finger grip was the standard.
Moe did not actually use this style when he set his records in competitive golf. He apparently switched in the early 1990's when Natural Golf first came into the picture. I used the grip described on the Single Plane site of the Natural Golf Swing from the Palm Springs, California school and the 6 iron I was first using stayed steady through impact providing a straight flight at about 148 yards. Of course one has to keep in mind that I am hitting shots now in 38 - 42 degree weather in Wisconsin and the golf balls are kept in the trunk of my car. I took some golf balls from home the other day and the same shots are in the 160 range with a straight flight.
I figure that isn't too bad for a guy who is 61 years old in December and has four spinal issues, lower and upper regions. Restricted mobility - YES - using the Single Plane swing, however, that Moe Norman brought into golf works for me. My other 'research swings' for the sake of a name work too but those are simply variations I discovered when I was introduced to the oversized grips and following new injuries and decreased mobility. If I had seen the actual grip Moe used with standard clubs I may never have found other variations so someday they may be useful.
I would reserve them for fundraising perhaps where baseball, hockey & non golfing folks can participate in a skills challenge / target hitting venue. As for me, I am very thankful to have found this pertinent information about the grip using standard irons with the Natural Golf Single Plane swing. I will now go on to perfect this proven swing style. Soon I will have a utube video showing the swing too.
I have been emailing Jerry Martin in Palm Springs who teaches the swing and keeping in touch with the academy he is affiliated with based in Oklahoma, the Graves Golf Academy. Now I really feel I am back to golf better than I have been because for me the hybrids were a fine alternative, but for many people they may still not be the answer for them to a proven solid shot making routine.
Being from Wisconsin and having raised in Illinois, I can only wonder how great it will be to travel to Palm Springs and consider being part of that golf academy there in the collllllddddd winter months. This could be the best get-a-way too considering all the other sites to visit in California. I know Palm Springs is just two hours from San Diego.
Now if I can just interest my oldest daughter and her friends about this swing style and Palm Springs, get them interested in golf, then I would most likely have to travel there more often especially from November thru April. Maybe from this point forward I can develop a golf get-a-way in Palm Springs, CA for people I meet back here in Wisconsin so they can enjoy this as winter activity with plenty to do there in assuredly warmer weather!
Bye for now. I will keep blogging on both the winter escape and the single plane swing as I go off to now discover what type of iron works best for me. Do take the time to look up those sites or ask me at scottyjohnd@hotmail.com.

Learning the Golf-Blaster's Swing 4 Recreation

It is refreshing to know for sure that there is another choice of golf for those who have decided for now in their lives that the expense of clubs, lessons, and time does not fit. To use one club, after hours for an hour or so on an off & on basis seems to fit their too busy lifestyle at this time. Maybe in time all that will change but during these just-4-fun-recreational days/years they will learn the basic Basics of hitting solid shots with that one hybrid, or maybe two if they choose. There is one place to attain more information regarding this golf-blasters style. It is the utube link. If you would like even more detailed information please email me at scottyjohnd@hotmail.com and I will answer all questions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6aODpFvnpo

You may have to highlight the address, click edit - then Copy - then place the cursor onto the web browser for a search and find or place it onto an email new message and go back to edit -click and click onto Paste. Can anyone tell that I am quite the novice still when it comes to this computer function? Email me at scottyjohnd@hotmail.com if you have questions or advice on attaching actual links to a blog. Thanks. JohnnyD

Golf-Blasters Swing - Similar to Baseball & Hockey

For those who wonder if there is a reality in using baseball batting swing mechanics or hockey slap shot mechanics to golf a ball, the golf-blasters set-up using oversize-jumbo grips on lofted hybrids is very effective for both swings. This was verified and authenticated not long ago by a former professional baseball player from Milwaukee and an Athletic Trainer from a hockey club in Milwaukee. There will soon be an ebook for sale regarding the golf-blasters swing offered for sale on ebay. I will take email requests for the baseball & hockey applications at this email address: scottyjohnd@hotmail.com I like using a 28, 31, or 34 degree hybrid for the baseball swing style although when I was trained using the grip one uses to bat, I was slugging the ball over 260 yards on the fly with a driver designed with an oversize grip. Anyone who is proficient with the hockey slap shot or the baseball batting swing has less than a 15 minute window of success using these types of clubs to golf. The adjustments for baseball or hockey from the golf-blasters set-up would be involved with the grip on the club and the position of the ball related to the stance. All these swing styles have a wide stance so somewhere left of center for ball placement would be most applicable. Perhaps the game of golf would grow further as people become familiar with these two sports swings being applicable for golf - using the correct equipment for that approach however. There are several oversize and jumbo grips to choose from regarding this swing approach but the best results regarding the clubhead is a hybrid because of its mass. It is simply more efficient through impact than a conventional iron. It hammers the ball forward. I will report more results and findings in my next blog.

Utube Golf-blasters Swing - Hey Non-golfers - Consider this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6aODpFvnpo

Here is that utube address again. I will work on getting it directly linked, but in the meantime really look at my hands in the picture as I have blasted through the ball area on the ground and continued the swing forward with a Tight Grip on the club with the Two-Palm hold. Not much to time or coordinate here really. My hands move into this position on their own at this point as I do not force any extra motions.

The Golf-blasters Swing Continues

Continued practice with the golf-blasters swing has shown me just how key it is to remain firm with the set-up and not add any addition motions to gain more distance. I am finding the most efficient swing thought, for the sake of having one to count on, is to make sure to return my hands to the position in front of the ball where they were at the address or set-up. By returning the hands swiftly and soundly with the Two-Palm grip assures the compression of the ball at impact and continuing forward in the swing plane. This is where the 'Blast' in Blasters comes into play. From about a ten o'clock position in the back swing I drop the club slightly and then briskly swing that locked two-palm grip back to the original position where it was at set-up and continue through the ball. The clubhead does not turn over as it collides with the ball and the ball is compressed actually as it is blasted into the air. This is all quite visible on my UTUBE link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6aODpFvnpo
There is now an ebook available also detailing the 5 steps of the golf-blasters swing. Email me directly at scottyjohnd@hotmail.com I still like playing with a 31 degree hybrid Synchron ll from Hireko Golf. I am convinced that the oversize grip is best for the Two-Palm grip at least in my average size hand. The one club approach is surely recreational but I may start using a putter on the greens as I am reaching 400 yard par fours in three shots and actually putting might lower my scoring average. Not too worried really. Just keep it Fun!!